Should You Buy Nokia?

By Shareholders Unite:Just like Research in Motion (RIMM), Nokia (NOK) has gotten quite a beating from the emergence of Apple (AAPL) and Android in the smartphone market and this has hit the stock price hard. Is there any chance of a revival? We first look at some data:

Market cap is $9.69B with 3.71B shares outstanding

Revenue is $44.28B (12 months to date) that's more than four times the market cap

Diluted earnings per share for the last four quarters (starting Q2 2011) was 10 cents, 2 cents 29 cents and 25 cents, all losses

By Saibus Research:We previously compared Nokia Corporation (NOK) against Research in Motion (RIMM) back in September and we were able to conclude that while Nokia has no chance in catching up to the Android-iOS sma

By Global Value Investor:Research in Motion (RIMM) and Nokia (NOK) are two communication providers that produce and market mobile communication solutions worldwide. Both companies have in common that their stock prices are in decline for some time and most investors seem to have lost confidence in them.

By Shareholders Unite:Well, it has been quite a journey for Research In Motion (RIMM). Just a couple of years ago they were basically the undisputed kings of the smartphone, or at least their rendition of it. Just about every businessperson of importance had a RIMM 'terminal' to stay in touch with his company 24/7.

Market Blog submits:
By David Berman
Even bullish analyst notes on Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) these days contain flashing warning signs. Take Steven Li at Raymond James, for example. He maintained an “outperform” recommendation on the stock and his new target price of $60 implies a gain of more than 50 percent from Monday’s price.

Trefis submits:
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has been great at sparking consumer interest in new features to its iPhone operating system iOS. Such developments are critical in the smartphone OS space, as competition has intensified over the past few years with Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android making a big splash.

Andrew Wilkinson submits: YRC Worldwide (YRCW) – I was a little skeptical yesterday of the extreme pessimism that depicted the predictions from the options market surrounding the fate of trucking giant, YRC Worldwide. Investors stepped up to buy huge amounts of put options at the 50 cent strike price that expire next month.